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    All The Single Ladies...Are Losing In The Housing Market
    Sally Herships
    • Jan 7, 2020
    • 1 min

    All The Single Ladies...Are Losing In The Housing Market

    It's generally tricky negotiating the price of a house, whether you're buying or selling. But a recent study from Kelly Shue and Paul...
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    Sally Herships
    • Sep 24, 2019
    • 1 min

    Amazon Opens Brick-And-Mortar Stores Meant To Emphasize Convenience

    Amazon is opening new stores — in the real world. And in true Big Tech fashion the experience is meant to emphasize convenience. All you...
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    Sally Herships
    • Sep 2, 2019
    • 1 min

    Why China, The World's Largest Rice Producer, Quietly Bought U.S. Rice Last Year

    China is the world's biggest rice producer. So why did it agree to buy two shipping containers of rice from the U.S.? Planet Money...
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    The Rise Of The Blue-Collar Noncompete
    Sally Herships
    • Aug 10, 2019
    • 1 min

    The Rise Of The Blue-Collar Noncompete

    Workers in sales jobs, or those who have access to a company's trade secrets, are often asked to sign noncompete clauses as part of their...
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    Sports Teams Need To Fill Stadiums
    Sally Herships
    • Aug 8, 2019
    • 1 min

    Sports Teams Need To Fill Stadiums

    Attendance at most sporting events has dropped in the last decade — and continues to fall. Sports teams have put most of their efforts...
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    Sally Herships
    • Jul 24, 2019
    • 1 min

    Cornhole And Other Less Traditional Sports Gather More Attention

    Niche sports, such as cornhole, axe throwing and even professional arm wrestling, are beginning to attract interest and money. These less...
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    Amazon #FAIL...?
    Sally Herships
    • Jul 1, 2019
    • 1 min

    Amazon #FAIL...?

    The online food delivery industry has managed to solve an issue that has managed to stifle online retailers-- the so-called...
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    Niche Sports Cashing In
    Sally Herships
    • Jun 26, 2019
    • 1 min

    Niche Sports Cashing In

    Games that may have been played at a party with a beer cup in hand, or before that big college football game — like cornhole, darts or...
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    Coffee? Thank U, Next
    Sally Herships
    • Mar 19, 2019
    • 1 min

    Coffee? Thank U, Next

    That pricing disconnect comes from a lot of moving parts in the industry. For example, there's an oversupply of coffee beans, and...
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    Saying 'I Do' To Lab-Grown Diamonds
    Sally Herships
    • Mar 14, 2019
    • 1 min

    Saying 'I Do' To Lab-Grown Diamonds

    A lot of money is pouring into the global diamond industry, but demand for diamonds has been less than lustrous of late. But, at the same...
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    The Division Problem
    Sally Herships
    • Jan 25, 2019
    • 1 min

    The Division Problem

    We take a look at a problem that has dogged humans for centuries: How do you divide goods fairly? #Economy
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    College Side Hustle
    Sally Herships
    • Dec 15, 2018
    • 1 min

    College Side Hustle

    Enrollment of both undergrads and graduate students has been declining for years. Meanwhile colleges are getting more creative in finding...
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    Beating Bollywood
    Sally Herships
    • Oct 18, 2018
    • 1 min

    Beating Bollywood

    India's population is 1.3 billion. So it only makes sense that American streaming giants Amazon and Netflix would want to get into the...
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    The Price of Rice In Japan
    Sally Herships
    • Sep 13, 2018
    • 1 min

    The Price of Rice In Japan

    The Japanese are eating less rice. Blame TV, the internet, burgers, Italian food, a growing economy. Blame the lunch ladies! Rice...
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    Japan's Ninja Shortage
    Sally Herships
    • Jul 16, 2018
    • 1 min

    Japan's Ninja Shortage

    Iga, a small Japanese city and the birthplace of the ninja, is facing a serious problem. Today on the show, Sally Herships goes to Iga to...
    10 views0 comments
    Positively 23rd Street
    Sally Herships
    • Jun 11, 2018
    • 1 min

    Positively 23rd Street

    Radio reporter Sally Herships, a native New Yorker and longtime friend of the show, has been obsessed with a particular block in midtown...
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    Failing College
    Sally Herships
    • May 10, 2018
    • 1 min

    Failing College

    Colleges have a problem: fewer people are applying every year. Universities are competing like crazy for any edge they can get. Some are...
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    Sally Herships
    • Oct 17, 2016
    • 1 min

    3 simple ways to find story ideas

    Over the summer, Sally did a callout on social media asking where public media journalists get their story ideas. The responses were...
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    Sally Herships
    • May 10, 2009
    • 1 min

    Overcoming Cultural Barriers To Jobs

    The foreign-born population in the U.S. is now at an all time high — more than 10 percent. And while recession-time jobs are hard to come...
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    Sally Herships
    • Feb 23, 2009
    • 1 min

    New Degree Creates Doctor Nurses — And Confusion

    No one wants to badmouth Florence Nightingale, but a new degree for nurses is causing bad blood between doctors and their longtime...
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